It’s NYFW, the Big Apple’s honorary holiday where thousands of people celebrate iconic fashions and yes! It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Last Thursday, I attended the OqLiq show at Spring Studios for FW20. As the lights dimmed, and whimsical Taiwanese music rocked the room, the models, one by one, strut the […]
Titled Retro Sentinel and designed by Niu Niu Chou, MRHUA MRSHUA marched vibrant colors and intense patterns down the runway this past NY Fashion Week. The collection can basically be bisected into a homage to Chinese ethnic minority dress and a tribute to American pop art. However, bold colors and gender nonconforming pieces fuse them […]
Nature-jeweler and artist Kira Koktysh created a new series of hand-sculptured pendants, or talismans, for Katya Leonovich’s S/S 2020 Menswear collection this New York Fashion Week. Fix and Fax marks Katya’s shift to menswear from couture womenswear. Kira too, had limited experience creating fashion for men; having merely created pearl cuff links, she was pleased and […]
Conceptual designer, Kyungah Min, launched the high-tech KAIMIN SS20 collection during New York Fashion Week. Unveiling a commercial denim line, SLFF (pronounced ‘self’) honors transformation in the conditioned world. Albeit through exaggerated tulle and ruffles, or geometric cutouts of denim, vinyl, or leather—the innovatively inclusive KAIMIN’s “Introspective Prism” SS20 collection wildly epitomizes the cultural fractal. […]
On the top floor of Pier 59 it was pretty much impossible not to feature in somebody else’s selfie. There were strident leopard-print fashionistas strutting and restrutting dramatic entrances into the Oxford Fashion Studio’s waiting room (always recorded by a trustworthy friend); leopard-print solo flyers touched up their foundation in phone reflections, occasionally pausing to […]
After gazing at the clothes modelled in Calvin Luo’s fall-winter 2019 collection, three words seemed to outline for me most of the pieces: in alphabetical order, plaids-solids-stripes. They conjure up the lasting image for me, even though there were a few eyebrow-raising items that featured animal prints, the designer’s name in a series of patterns, […]
At first, a hardware store hardly seems an appropriate venue for a runway. However, for Amanda Mehl’s AW19 show, “Love Handles,” the wrenches, paint samples, and fake grass at Garber’s made the perfect environment. The industrial surroundings provided an intense juxtaposition to the prominently featured animal prints and faux fur. These animalistic elements were paired […]
The 2nd day of New York Fashion Week was bustling with energy, style and tactility. Linda Fargo, Senior VP & Women’s Fashion Director of Bergdorf Goodman, knew this through the opening of Noir just one week earlier. Le Noir was by far one of the sexiest burlesque parties this NYFW 2018. A shop […]
Conveniently parked atop Canoe Studios in Manhattan’s Western Chelsea, was the totem Rolls Royce: The hot voluptuous car– around which everyone pranced in revelry–with Hennessy. A terrace abundant with prominent lights transformed concerns into dream. Revelry, with Hennessy… angelic caterers and bystanders, mostly dressed in black…(like the car)… pronounced agendas, relevant to steer. Peer-ing forward, […]